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Re: Bee Size vs Cell Size
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ALDEN MARSHALL <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:12:17 -0500
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From: "allen dick" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [BEE-L] Bee Size vs Cell Size


>>> What puzzles me is that the above seems -- unless I misunderstand --
>>> to suggest that a natural broodnest does pretty much what the small

    Perhaps part of the answer here is that not all colonies do exactly the
same thing, perhaps some colonies build proportionally more small cell comb
than others and these are the survivors?

Alden Marshall

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